Re: debianlive iso with xfce and clamav
On 2015-11-26, rlharris@oplink.net <rlharris@oplink.net> wrote:
> On Wed, November 25, 2015 9:37 pm, David Christensen wrote:
>> No, I'm talking about disconnecting all hard disk drives and solid state
>> drives, plugging in a USB flash drive, booting a Debian installer CD, and
>> installing Debian onto the USB flash drive. Debian then runs from the USB
>> flash drive as if it were a HDD/ SDD -- e.g. /dev/sda. Next, I install
>> whatever tasksel package sets I want, install whatever apt/ dpkg/ *.deb
>> packages I want, install whatever other software I want, and configure
>> things how I want. I now have a USB flash drive that I can boot in most
>> other machines (up to ~10 years old) and have a Debian environment with
>> exactly what I want.
>
> Which arrangement sounds like exactly what I wished to find. Thanks much;
> I shall give it a try.
>
> Dare I ask whether this would work with a USB-interface drive such as the
> Toshiba Canvio Connect II (reformatted, for example, to ext4)?
>
By the way this can be done neatly in kvm, for example (I have done
it myself, actually) with the netinstall.iso in your home directory,
for example (yes, I know, I said for example twice). Here's the magic
formula:
kvm -hda /dev/sdc -boot d -cdrom netinstall.iso
where /dev/sdc is your usb flash drive and netinst.iso is your, well,
netinstall.iso. I used the big 266 mb (give or take) one.
No danger of installing onto the wrong medium and wiping out all your fond
memories (if you get the /dev/sdc part right) because the installer only
sees the flash drive.
Anyhoo.
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